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Review of Mailbox.org: Email privacy with a thick German accent

2018-12-13T02:30:48+00:00

This week, I migrated my email from FastMail, an Australian email provider hosted in the United States, to Mailbox.org, a privacy-focused email service provider hosted and…

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Goodbye FastMail: Aussie government succeeds in undermining trust in Australian tech companies

2018-12-10T07:15:05+00:00

I’ve been with multiple email service providers over the years, and have always used my own domain name so that I don’t get locked into any…

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Gaming on Steam for Linux is more secure than on macOS and Win32

2018-12-03T06:57:14+00:00

2018 have been a terrible year for computer security, and playing games on a computer isn’t all fun and games any more. In this article I’ll…

Guetzli–WebP and Zopfli–WebP comparison

WebP image file sizes compared to equivalent Guetzli and Zopfli

2018-12-02T16:07:59+00:00

I decided to offer WebP images in addition to the traditional JPEG and PNG formats after Microsoft Edge and then shortly after Mozilla Firefox added support…

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Paving new paths out of dead-end blog archive page navigation

2018-11-24T12:48:28+00:00

Many blog publishing platforms will generate yearly or monthly archive pages that lists the posts published in that period. However, most platforms creates dated archive pages…

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Structuring WordPress’ upload directory to handle lots of files

2018-12-15T01:58:39+00:00

This is a quick post about organizing WordPress’ uploads directory, wp-content/uploads, for a large number of files using a file name-derived directory structure.

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Safari’s default media controls get blocked when applying a Content-Security-Policy

2018-11-22T13:10:57+00:00

I recently ran into an unexpected road block trying to deploy a Content-Security-Policy on a website that relied on the native media controls provided for the…

Example of libgd resize noise

WordPress with PHP GD’s image resize artifact-pattern problem

2018-11-19T15:45:08+00:00

Up until now, I’ve been using WordPress with the PHP GD graphics library (libgd) to downscale images for thumbnails and responsive images. The resulting images haven’t…

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Turkey blocks BunnyCDN, 14 000 websites and Ctrl blog inaccessible

2018-11-24T13:29:07+00:00

European content delivery network (CDN) BunnyCDN is currently blocked in Turkey by major internet service providers in the country. The Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority’s…

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WebP images won’t load in Microsoft Edge with Application Guard

2018-11-14T21:10:52+00:00

Microsoft Edge version 18, distributed as part of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, have added support for the the high-compression-efficiency WebP image format. Unfortunately, this…

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